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I have been sent two scaned pages detailing the Lockheed brake assembly form Brakes and Brake Testing by Maurice Platt, 1934. A definitive layout of brake components so now I feel confident that they will be correctly assembled. Happy days.

Many thanks. I have been shown pictures of the spring fitted to push the cross bar down but as you have shown my intuition appears correct. It should be pulled up so the step in the arm is in contact with the pin. There is in the parts diagram th ecorrect locating arrangement in place of your wsher. It consists of #4072 (slotted cover that goes over the pin and held in place by the bolt) , #4073 (a steped bolt) and #5130 &#X195 washer and castlegated nut and split pin. I'll take and post a picture. What is the saying about great minds? I had the same plan when it came to compressing the Thackeray washer. The thickness of the washer is a great help. I'll machine up four washers from some 1 1/4" stainless steel bar I have. What a job this is!

Thanks for the picture. I have put the spring on in said fashion and it looks as though its not get enough tension so some tweeking will be required. It studying the parts page to see what shape the spring should actually be I notices mention of washers for the anchor pin. This now has me troubled because I don't have any washers. I've uploaded the parts plate. #X568 is anchor pin plain washer (X4) X566 is shoe anchor pin plain washer (X8). My guess is that there is a plain washer against the back plate and between the shoes and then one under the anchor pin cir clip (#7191). I do'nt know how thick each wasjer should be but the anchor pin is about 0.86" so I can work out he inner diameter sand probably the outer diameter too. Would yo uagree with my proposal for where the washers go? I read with great interest your post on your restoration. It will be very valuable as I do not have a body for my 1936 Triumph Gloria. I think it is politely called a special. I have tried to download the comments so I can study them later. My project came to me via my mentor who when I started teaching took me under his wing. It was a chassis only at the back of the workshop when I arrived at the school in 1976. Over the years although I moved schools and counties I helped in buying, transporting, repairing and making parts for Gloria. When he died I bought the project from his estate. I am basically putting together a jigsaw without all the parts and no picture. I bought another Triumph, a 1934 Gloria saloon a couple of years ago that is in a very bad way but I hoped it would provide a source of information and perhaps some parts. It turns out that there is a world of difference between 1934 and 1936 Triumphs.

Thank you for taking your time to help me sort this. It is much appreciated. It has occured to me like a lot of mechanical aspects of these early Triumphs a lot of mechanical knowledge has not been recorded and with cars not undergoing a lot of miles few are getting serviced. The result is the knowledge is getting lost. I am making sure that I keep a record of things as I go, just in case the next generation want to keep these cars on the road.

Thanks - for the info. With the parts book refering to it as 'spring push rod' I thought it may refer to the bar that pushes the two shoes apart when the handbrake is applied. The problem I have is that I can not see a way of th espring actually making its way to the handbrake ctuating arm if it sits on the pivot as the coil in the spring suggests.

1936 Triumph Gloria rear brakes It's springtime! Not quite perhaps but I would like to know how or where this spring fits (circled in yellow, part #5167) and its purpose. I am aware they are handed and that it must hold something in place. The brakes came to me disassembled so I have never seen them on the backplate. My best guess so far is also shown. To me it does not feel right, the shorter curved end looks as though it should wrap around or rest against something.